One can trace former President Donald Trump’s indictment by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg back to the media/Democrat belief that Trump’s 2016 election was illegitimate.
Sure, some, like Hillary Clinton, questioned former President Barack Obama’s birthplace. And, after the 2000 Bush v. Gore Supreme Court decision some, for a time, groused and called George W. Bush “president select.” But never in modern times has a president been so widely and consistently described as “illegitimate” as has candidate, president and now former President Donald Trump. It never stopped.
I write as the son of a lifelong Democrat mother, as the younger brother of a lifelong Democrat, a Navy vet who was my best friend. My Marine vet father was a registered Republican with whom my mother and brother disagreed in spirited but never hateful debate across the kitchen table.
When John F. Kennedy defeated Richard Nixon in 1960, my father never cried “foul!” despite credible allegations of vote-stealing, especially in Illinois. Nixon knew about this, but chose not to protest and filed no lawsuit, perhaps fearing counter-allegations against his campaign.
Last year, The New York Times published a review of a Nixon-friendly biography. According to the book, Nixon, at his Christmas party after Kennedy’s narrow victory, told his guests, “We won, but they stole it from us.” The Times review dismissed Nixon’s complaint: “The weakness of the case did not stop Nixon’s men from pushing their allegations. But six decades hence — in the absence of new evidence, at a time when false claims of a stolen election pose a mounting threat to our system of self-government — historians ought to think twice before endorsing them.”
“Historians ought to think twice” about “endorsing” allegations of stolen elections. Sound advice. And the advice applies to non-historians, particularly media pundits and politicians.
This brings us to the 2016 election in which the upstart Trump, not taken seriously by Democrats and most of the media, defeated the heavy favorite Hillary Clinton, whose chance of winning The New York Times on Election Day pegged at 85%.
Obama’s Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson testified before Congress that the Russians, despite their efforts, failed to change a single vote tally. As to the Russian election interference, largely through ads and posts on Facebook, Johnson called it unknowable whether this altered public opinion or the outcome of the election.
Yet two years later, a 2018 YouGov poll found 66% of Democrats believe that Russia in 2016 changed vote tallies. And a 2018 Gallup poll found 78% of Democrats believe that the Russian 2016 interference “changed the outcome of the election.” This means a greater percentage of Democrats believe the 2016 election was stolen than Republicans who felt that way about 2020.
Nearly 25% of the Democrat congressional delegation refused to attend Trump’s inauguration. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., one of the most respected members of the House, called Trump’s election “illegitimate,” a charge Lewis reiterated months before he died. Former President Jimmy Carter said: “I think a full investigation would show that Trump didn’t actually win the election in 2016. He lost the election, and he was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf.” Hillary Clinton routinely called the election “stolen” and President Trump “illegitimate.”
Yet Republicans — and the mainstream media — did not call Clinton, Carter, Lewis and the Democrats who boycotted Trump’s inauguration “election deniers.” The First Amendment gives losers, with or without evidence, the right to complain without fear of prosecution, let alone persecution.
Notably, Hillary Clinton has been silent about Trump’s indictment. Why? She likely does not want to remind the country that she clearly violated the Espionage Act with her basement server but skated because the FBI’s James Comey said she lacked the “intent” to violate the statute — though her violation does not require intent.
About Trump’s indictment over hush money payments, two can play the rouge prosecutor game. There are republican DAs and attorneys general, too. In the movie “Tora! Tora! Tora!” about the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto said, “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”
The giant is still asleep. He is very big but he doesn’t want to go to jail like the J6-ers.
Until he’s willing, nothing changes.
Exactly. Just one thing needs to happen, and it won’t happen, in my view, ever. It’s just a matter of time until pedos are fuxing babies in the street.
“The most terrifying force of death, comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left alone. They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love.
They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it. They know, that the moment they fight back, their lives as they have lived them, are over.
The moment the Men who wanted to be left alone are forced to fight back, it is a form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be. Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these Men who wanted to be left alone, fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives. They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror. TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy… but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”
-Soviet Dissident, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
THE WRATH OF THE AWAKENED SAXON
by Rudyard Kipling
It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the Saxon began to hate.
They were not easily moved,
They were icy — willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the Saxon began to hate.
Their voices were even and low.
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not preached to the crowd.
It was not taught by the state.
No man spoke it aloud
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not suddently bred.
It will not swiftly abate.
Through the chilled years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the Saxon began to hate.
Excellent article, Mr. Elder.
That Hillary Clinton is “silent” of late is a good thing; we should enjoy it while it lasts.
Perhaps she & Chelsea are dodging sniper fire again!
I doubt that Billy Dale would mind popping her a new one in the forehead.
He owes her some payback, after she tried to imprison him on false charges. (She only succeeded in draining his life savings.)
Rogue, not rouge.
Wouldn’t that depend on how the prosecutor “identifies”?
Spell checkers are identified as liberals with nothing to say but spell check…
Very interesting that back when the Al Gor tried to steal Bush43’s election, that Bush43 did manage to see THAT attempted theft. (It began when the press screwed Bush with the early call that cost him 30,000 votes in the Florida panhandle.)
The rigging of the 2020 election cycle was beyond question, but Bush43 “saw no evil”. He took a 2 minute glance, and that was the extent of his non-investigation.
Bush43 apparently had a habit of letting his supporters twist in the wind (Scooter Libby, Border cops Ramos & Campeon, John Ellis, etc), yet gladly covered for the Clinton staffers that trashed the White House on their way out.
They did far more damage than any Jan 6th patriot, but Bush didn’t call that a “prank or two”, he called it what it wasn’t – an “insurrection”. (That was the 2nd time he shrugged off any real inquiry, which gives him something in common with Ambassador Joe Wilson.)
It’s also interesting how Bush43 saw the show trial of his cousin John Ellis (for calling Florida at 2:am) and let him hang out to dry.
Bush ignored 7 years of concocted persecution & impeachments on Trump.
Now that corrupt DAs are tripling down on actual banana republic tactics, Bush still chooses to “see no evil”. (Afterall it’s not him in their cross hairs.)
We had Bush’s back when he was under siege, but he can’t be bothered to watch anyone else’s. It’s more his style to suck-up & give-it-away-now. Mission accomplished.
Biden commits acts of reason just like Clinton(Bill)and Obama and the M.S. Media looks the other way since most of these gutter dwellers are Democrat Voters and Supporters
WASP’s are walking the blank along with DJT…Despite his key failures…Maybe Al Gore did win
I support Trump but I’m afraid I have to agree with Scott Adams when he says that athough he respects Republicans adhering to their beliefs about abortion, he thinks that it will probably assure that they can’t win a national election. Although it’s not spoken about much it is a single-issue vote for many women. In other words, they will not vote for a party which denies them abortion rights. No matter what I or others think about this
Yes agree with all that, but Liberal privilege and all that!
Alvin Bragg is an affront and disgrace the dignity of the Office of the District Attorney.
Bragg should be disbarred from the Office of the DA for violations of ethics and corruption charges as well as for deliberate abuse and misuse of the DA Office and gross incompetence.